The Falcon 9 booster for the Anasis-II mission is a rocket that makes history. It was the booster used to send NASA astronauts to the ISS in May.
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SpaceX has postponed a Falcon 9 launch three times within five days, with the latest delay affecting the Anasis-II mission to send a South Korean military satellite into orbit.
The company announced on Twitter on Monday that it was delaying takeoff “to take a closer look at the second stage, changing hardware if necessary.”
Since tomorrow’s ANASIS-II release to take a closer look at the second stage, change hardware if necessary. Will announce new target release date once confirmed in range
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 13, 2020
SpaceX too it postponed its latest Starlink release last Wednesday and then again on Saturday.
The Anasis-II mission will eventually take off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. If it happens before the Starlink mission, which is currently awaiting a new launch date, it will be SpaceX’s 12th. launching this year, the 90th flight of a Falcon 9 and the second in general for this particular boost, which was first performed in May to take NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station – The first time that a commercial company has done so. Ergo, it has some history.
There is a backup start window scheduled for the same time on July 15, but we’ll have to wait and see how quickly technical issues can be resolved.
The payload, Anasis-II, is South Korea’s first military communications satellite. Due to its use in the military, there isn’t much information on Anasis-II, but for the fact it is based on the Eurostar E3000 satellite bus, according to the Everyday Astronaut.
We will update this post once we have a new release date.
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